Aviation Week & Space Technology

Airliner retirements were reduced greatly in 2018; new analyst reports suggest the upsides/downsides from fewer aircraft parked in desert holding stations.

As SH09 certification approaches, Kopter lays out industrialization plan.

MD Helicopters will fight for FARA contract; India’s milsat plans; Israel’s customized F-35 upgrades, and the end of the line for U.S. Marine Corps Prowlers.

Has Airbus really lived up to its potential? And is the group healthy enough today to guarantee that it will still be around 50 years from now?

Aviation Week and the AIAA honor these exceptional aerospace students for their academic accomplishments and extracurricular activities.

Intended to reduce pilot workload and optimize operations, GE’s Connected FMS will extends the flexibility of EFBs

Having won an Australian armed-drone competition, General Atomics urges the customer to buy the latest MQ-9 version.

Despite cancellation of Google X Prize, Israeli nonprofit aiming for April touchdown on the Moon.

Other European governments will monitor closely what is happening at Air France-KLM, and consider their own options next time the local airline is in trouble.

Matrix technology will enable more automation in the cockpit for offshore and SAR missions.

Airbus CEO Tom Enders says the key challenges of the next 25 years will be fundamentally different from those of the last several decades.

The RAAF’s combat aircraft commander expected trouble in making F-35s operational. He has been pleasantly surprised.

The concept would allow Air Force leaders to hedge against the risk of future technology breakthroughs and surprise enemies with unexpected new capabilities.

Europe’s supersonic split; Wing advances UTM; Safran hybrid-electric plans; Printing aircraft liveries

Rolls-Royce’s decision to pull the UltraFan from the NMA competition may be a good move by the UK engine-maker, but what happens now?

Aviation Week flies Sikorsky’s autonomous S-76 testbed as the company reveals its interest in the urban air mobility market.

DARPA’s original late-1970s Assault Breaker sought to counter possibility of overwhelming waves of Soviet armored forces rampaging across Western Europe.

New five-blade rotor comes from Airbus’ Bluecopter technology demonstrator.

Half a decade following the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, an international tracking system is still being built.

EU urges ICAO to agree at its assembly in September on a “long-term goal” to address the aviation industry’s rising CO2 emissions.

At last, a U.S spaceship for orbital human flight is ready for a test run to ISS.

As NASA gears up for first U.S. human spaceflights since 2011, a training tool from the ‘60s is back in vogue.

Virgin Galactic targets assured repeatability as test focus expands beyond envelope expansion to include cabin environment and ride quality.

As the space shuttle neared retirement, NASA turned to partnerships with commercial companies to provide crew ferry flights to and from the International Space Station. Here’s a look at program milestones.

BAE’s improved EW system; Japan plans 2020 UAV demo; Israeli Air Force beefs up Heron TP, and the U.S. Army’s radar "sense off."